In this latest version of Lightroom, we can now import PNG files and that's what…I want to focus in on here.…In the previous versions of Lightroom, we could import JPEG, TIFF, PST, RAW files;…CMYK files, Movies and now we can import all of those as well as this PNG format.…You know, the PNG format is really fascinating.…It does a really good job when it comes to working with transparency.…So why would this matter to us as photographers?…Some of our camera phone apps actually save files in this PNG format, we…may want to import and work on those in Lightroom.…

In other situations, we may have files like this one here.…If I click into this next file, it's titled demo cover.png, you can barely see…that there's a title here of a magazine.…We can use this as an overlay on top of a photograph to sort of simulate…how an image might appear on a cover of a magazine.…Let me illustrate that by navigating to another photograph.…This is a photograph that I captured in one of my colleague's offices.…He had some balloons hanging down;…

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4/8/2014

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4/17/2013

Discover what's new in Photoshop Lightroom 5, the popular photo management, enhancement, and publishing program from Adobe. Get a sneak peek at Upright, for automatic perspective correction, and Smart Previews, for viewing large RAW images more quickly at a smaller file size, even when they are disconnected from your main catalog. Author Chris Orwig also reviews the extra flexible and precise healing and retouching tools, new Radial filter, video slideshows, and new features for expediting your workflow.